A residential facility providing long-term care in a homelike setting for minors or adults who require substantial help or supervision, such as those who have serious handicaps (see handicapped), mental disorders, or mental retardation, or those classed as juvenile delinquents or incorrigible children, the aim being to place them in the least restrictive environment. Normally staffed 24 hours a day, group homes serve generally fewer than 50 people and provide the kind of supervision a family on its own might not be able to provide. Children in group homes generally attend local public schools, often in special programs. Children who have no parents or guardians and who once would have been placed in large orphanages are now more likely to be placed in group homes, pending placement with foster parents or for adoption.<\/p>\n
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A residential facility providing long-term care in a homelike setting for minors or adults who require substantial help or supervision, such as those who have serious handicaps (see handicapped), mental disorders, or mental retardation, or those classed as juvenile delinquents or incorrigible children, the aim being to place them in the least restrictive environment. Normally […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-g"],"yoast_head":"\n